Since 2010, the founding members of the Equally Blessed Coalition have worked collectively and individually to educate, to inspire, and to prompt Catholics to take action in the church and in the wider culture on behalf of LGBTQI people, their families, and friends. Fortunate Families, one of the founding members […]
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The Liturgy Coordinator position reports to CTA’s Conference Coordinator and is responsible for coordinating and providing quality liturgical experiences that celebrate and strengthen the CTA community as they gather for their annual conference. Responsibilities include the planning, training, recruiting and scheduling of ministers and liturgical artists (including environmental designer, musicians, […]
As Catholic feminists and leaders of organizations committed to justice for women within our church as well as throughout society, we have followed Voices of Faith’s efforts to crack open the Vatican walls by sponsoring an annual forum about women inside one of the last remaining bastions of male domination in the […]
A U.S. group, which campaigns for the full inclusion of LGBT people in the church, has called on Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, president of the World Meeting of Families 2018, and other Irish Catholic leaders, to restore the image of a same-sex couple to the booklet, “Amoris: Let’s talk Family! […]
In a recent radio interview, Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising said the Catholic Church needs to provide better pastoral support for lesbian or gay people but stopped short of endorsing blessings for same-sex couples as a general practice or policy. At the same time, he appeared to leave open the […]
DignityUSA, an organization of Catholics committed to justice, equality, and full inclusion of LGBTQI people in our church and society and a member of the Equally Blessed coalition, is seeking an experienced grant-writing consultant to assist in grant-writing to targeted funders for initiatives connected with and stretching beyond our 50th […]
If you are an LGBTQI Catholic, you are a movement. I admit this sounds counterintuitive. Aren’t movements about a lot of people, not just an individual, creating some kind of impact or momentum toward a desired good or response to injustice? So let me explain. At a recent holiday gathering, […]
For John Freml, a devout Catholic who is also gay, abandoning his faith is not an option. “If everybody who thought like me were to leave the church, then there would be nobody left in the church for the youth who are dealing with the same things that I had […]
In December, while the rest of the country was debating tax reform and net neutrality, four Catholic bishops and 16 other conservative religious leaders issued an “open letter” about transgender issues, firing a shot in what has become the next major culture war issue after same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, progressive […]
The sorry state of the Catholic conversation about same-sex love prompts us to make a constructive proposal. If we have any hope of moving the discussion in a justice-seeking direction, we need a new approach to the problems of homohatred and heterosexism that begins not with church teaching but with […]